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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My article“Accordion or Piano?: Working Class Musicking as Micropolitics in The Piano in a Factory (2010)” has been published in Afterimage：https://online.ucpress.edu/afterimage/article/53/3/70/219165/Accordion-or-Piano-Working-Class-Musicking-as?guestAccessKey=63057e28-3a03-4921-94b3-aaec41609374

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Ending my two-year fellowship and research journey in Europe and going back to my teaching job. Thanks French and European friends and colleagues for their generous help and inspirations. Unpleasant experience at the security line at Orly Airport was just an annoying yet insignificant episode…

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Presenting a book chapter at the radical film network conference in Paris tomorrow:

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

See you in Prague: On June 4–5, 2026, FAMU will host the international conference Film Schools in a Historical Context, which will be attended by nearly forty guests from 17 countries in Europe, North and South America, Asia, and Africa: www.famu.cz/media/Progra...

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Paris, June 1 (today), 15:45, Chinese film screening: Springtime in a Small Town (Fei Mu, 1948), Christine Cinema Club.

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Another talk at Peking University next Monday afternoon: “Militant Aesthetic Front: Filming Anti-Colonial Solidarities from Beijing to Algiers”

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Will deliver a talk entitled, “Solidarity Emotions and Political Melodrama: Sino-Latin American Cinematic Encounters during the Cold War” on May 11 at Renmin University in Beijing.

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Going to share my research at Umichigan tomorrow noon(Tuesday March 24), welcome to attend in person or via zoom: “Transnational Feminist Mediation: The Other Half of the Sky (1975) and US-China People’s Diplomacy” Ling Zhang, Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, SUNY: ii.umich.edu/lrccs/news-e...

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Events | U-M LSA Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Sharing a chapter draft from a book I am writing this Saturday morning at Université Paris-Nanterre. The chapter is on the documentary “The Other Half of Sky: A China Memoir” (Shirley MacLaine & Claudia Weill, 1975), 1970s American women documentary and second-wave feminism.

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Thanks Prof. Winder W.T. Chang for organizing such a fascinating workshop on January 15, 2026 at IIAS Leiden. I will discuss "Silver Needle and the Silver Screen: Acupuncture Anaesthesia in 1950s-1970s Cinema" (my grandfather was a great TCM practitioner): www.iias.asia/events/persp...

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Thank you Joshua and Pietro! Look forward to reading this fantastic issue!

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Dear friends and colleague in London: I am giving a talk titled "Specter of Acoustic Internationalism: 'Voice of Malayan Revolution' in China, 1969-1981" at SOAS on November 11th (Tuesday) 5:15-7:00p.m, welcome to register and attend, and share your comments! Thanks!: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

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Specter of Acoustic Internationalism: “Voice of Malayan Revolution” in China, 1969-1981

This paper, as part of a book project on cinematic and media encounters between China, the Third World, and Euro-American Left during the Cold War, traces the Voice of Malayan Revolution as a resonant...

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Dear friends and colleagues in Hong Kong, welcome to attend the book launch event (Socializing Medicine: Health Humanities and East Asian Media) at UChicago Hong Kong Center on Friday, November 7, 2025. You can find more details and register in the weblink: uchicago.hk/event/book-l...

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Thanks for publishing this piece! Writing this essay was an inspiring political journey! Thanks Matt, the editors, and all my progressive Canadian friends!

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Visited a unique museum: the Paris Sewer Museum (Musée des égouts de Paris); so many themes converged beneath the city’s polished surface: labor, infrastructure, waste, hygiene, smell, and resistance...This also reminded me of Polish filmmaker AndrzejVajda’s film Kanal (1957).

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Friends and colleagues in Paris, welcome to my presentation, "The Kite, the Wind, and the Monkey King: Sino-French Cinematic Journeys, 1950s–1980s," at Maison Suger, October 9th (Thursday), 7-8p.m., look forward to your questions and suggestions: fmsh.fr/en/events/kite…

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Hybrid book launch event, Dutch time Thursday (09/25) 3:00p.m., Eastern time 9:00a.m., Beijing time 9:00p.m. Look forward to a productive discussion with colleagues. Welcome to register and participate: Socializing Medicine: Health Humanities and East Asian Media: www.iias.asia/events/socia...

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Socializing Medicine: Health Humanities and East Asian Media | IIAS

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Thanks Matt for editing the special issue, my article, "Dressing the Wounds: Medical Internationalism and Embodied Realism in Dr. Bethune (Zhang Junxiang, 1965)," is available for free download, look forward to your critique: www.academia.edu/129826352/DR...

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DRESSING THE WOUNDS: MEDICAL INTERNATIONALISM AND EMBODIED REALISM IN DR. BETHUNE

This article explores the cinematic and political significance of Dr. Bethune (Zhang Junxiang, 1965), a Chinese biographical film that transforms internationalist ideals into lived, corporeal experien...

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Thanks Matt Croomb for editing this special issue, I contributed an article, “Dressing the Wounds: Medical Internationalism and Embodied Realism in Dr. Bethune”: utppublishing.com/toc/cjfms/34...

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Contents | Canadian Journal of Film and Media Studies 34, 1

Special Issue: Cinema and More-than-Human Solidarity

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Look forward to attending the conference remotely tomorrow: International Symposium on 70 Years Since the Bandung Conference Tuesday 27 May 2025 10.00am to 4.00pm Hosted by the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre: www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/...

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International Symposium on 70 Years Since the Bandung Conference

Event exploring the legacies of the 1995 Bandung Conference, third-world internationalism

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Tomorrow evening in The Hague, welcome colleagues nearby.

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Presenting a book chapter, entitled "Fire and Fury from Afar: Mexican Films in China and Sino-Latin American Cultural Diplomacy during the Cold War" at IIAS Leiden and online tomorrow afternoon 2:00p.m.(EST 8a.m.), welcome friends and colleagues to join: www.iias.asia/events/fire-...

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Dear friends and colleagues, welcome to register to join my talk at IIAS in Leiden, the Netherlands and online on April 17th: "Fire and Fury from Afar: Mexican Films in China and Sino-Latin American Cultural Diplomacy during the Cold War": www.iias.asia/events/fire-...

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Fire and Fury from Afar: Mexican Films in China and Sino-Latin American Cultural Diplomacy during the Cold War | IIAS

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Tsinghua Professor Yan Hairong's talk, "Chinese Capital Accumulation and the Belt and Road Initiative," at Iias Leiden this Friday (03/07) at 2:00p.m., welcome friends in Leiden and Amsterdam to attend and share with friends and colleagues: www.iias.asia/events/chine...

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

With permission from co-editors, I have uploaded our introduction to Socializing Medicine online for free access. Look forward to your thoughts--many of the issues we raise regarding medicine, health injustice, and audiovisual media remain highly relevant. Thanks!: www.academia.edu/127485109/_I...

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Revolutionary books bought in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

After 4 years of collaborative efforts, our edited volume, Socializing Medicine: Health Humanities and East Asian Media, has been published by HKUP. Colleagues in North America can order through UCP website. Thanks for your support, look forward to your feedback: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Inspiring books I read in 2024:My Childhood; New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China; The Right to Be Lazy; Labor and Monopoly Capital; Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and The Lives of China’s Workers; Sound, Speech, Music in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema…

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

The ten most inspiring films I watched in 2024: Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat; Ni chaînes ni maîtres;About Dry Grasses;La Chimera;The Cord of Life;West Indies;POLISARIO, UN PEUPLE EN ARMES; Garm Hava (1973); Scenes of the Occupation from Gaza (1973,); The Red Army-PFLP: Declaration of World War (1971)

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

The bunkers once held by the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, and the Memorial to the International Brigades at City University. The memorial bears a quote from Dolores Ibárruri: “You are history, you are legend, you are the heroic example of solidarity and the universality of democracy”

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Conferences next June: Kathmandu, Nepal and Dakar, Senegal.

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Call for Abstracts: Edited Volume on "The Politics of the Soundtrack;" deadline: February 1, 2025; contact email: st.politics2025@gmail.com, welcome colleagues to contribute and please share widely, thank you: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/12/...

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cfp | call for papers

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Have bought 4 books to read before bed since late Oct; finished Gorky’s “My Childhood” and Gospodinov’s “Time Shelter.” Both interesting, the former sincere and incisive; the latter, too cynical to my taste. Cultural elites popular in the West from former socialist nations share this characteristic.

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Since 2021, during the pandemic, some film historian and cinephile friends and I have been hosting bi-weekly online discussions on 1920s-1949 Chinese films, drawing scholars and students from China, the U.S., and beyond. I have learned so much. We have finished discussing over 50 early Chinese films

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Visited the International Institute of Social History Amsterdam with other IIAS fellows. Thanks Elf for giving us the special tour. Will definitely go back to do research.

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Our panel on “Solidarity Filmmaking in the 1960s and 1970s” for SCMS has been accepted. Look forward to seeing friends and colleagues next April in Chicago.

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Recently finished reading the English translation of Gorky’s “My Childhood.” Once beloved and widely read in China, his autobiographical trilogy still holds a resonance. Revisiting the book, I found its power undiminished—It moved me to tears; also quote a sentence in an article I am working on.

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Thanks Jian Fan and Isabella Zang for visiting IIAS Leiden to share their poignant documentary, “After the Rain” (2021). The film provides an intimate and humane portrayal of families who lost their children in the devastating 2008 earthquake and later chose to give birth to or adopt another child.

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Went to the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam yesterday. Sara Gomez’s short documentaris were stunning, so nuanced and playful. They reveal clear connections to her doc-style fiction film One Way or Another, with recurring thematic and stylistic motifs. The two new docs were interesting.

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Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Our edited volume, Socializing Medicine: Health Humanities and East Asian Media (edited by Pao-chen Tang , Yuqian Yan, and Ling Zhang, HKUP, 2025), is available for pre-order: a tiny effort of decolonizing knowledge production. Thanks to our brilliant contributors: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Socializing Medicine

An analysis of the use of mass media as a tool to control healthcare.Socializing Medicine explores the intersections of medicine, health, and East Asian media. Interweaving archival research, audiovis...

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